John Sullivan @johns@librem.one
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
@luis_in_brief Arguably the fact that you have to search is already evidence of your point, but still something I'd like to know too.
John Sullivan
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So what’s the best way to search for/find accounts on the broadest possible set of fediverse servers? I’m considering criticizing an “open” organization for not being here yet, but I realize it’s actually very hard to know for certain if they do/don’t have an account.
Well, at least Gigi Sohn got to be a question on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me? #goals
cc @bergmayer
How do I feel about this? "AI-generated images from text can't be copyrighted, US government rules"
@josh One thing that helps me with the tracking is to be intentional about the time spent in the first place -- ie, I'm spending 3 hours on this draft, go. Then I tend to record time spent using either pen and paper or my scratchpad/inbox Nextcloud notes file, to be moved to a spreadsheet as part of daily scratch notes review. To me time spent on something is in the category of "needs to be captured immediately" rather than waiting to fire up a specific tool to put it in a particular place.
@BrideOfLinux Your article also has a factual date error I think :) "began on February 10 and will officially run through February 20"
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Could there be a bigger disaster for the #samsung mobile baseband software stack team? Internet-to-baseband remote code exscution. Seriously? https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2023/03/multiple-internet-to-baseband-remote-rce.html
- IMHO, all that SIP/SDP should happen in an unprivileged userspace proccess under Linux - not in the cellular baseband cpu/OS.
@shauna I'm curious whether, if you get a second Samsung phone, and use it to take a picture of the broken one, if your picture will in fact show an unbroken Samsung phone.
I've learned many new vocabulary words from reading Ashbery over the years. Not sure if that's a plus or not, just a fact. Tonight's is "pellucid" -- adj, transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity. As in, "Yet the froth of activity / before mealtimes crowded the pellucid element, frosting it slightly." #poetry
John Sullivan
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This description of a cursed magic rock from an old issue of Dragon Magazine is basically just a cell phone.
@pikurasa I had to pause for a few days, still have a quarter or so left. Will you read the next book in the series?
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and we are live!! you can back the MNT Pocket Reform (open hardware 7" mini laptop) campaign now: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/pocket-reform
and we are very thankful for spreading the word!
John Sullivan
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Today please enjoy half of one pie because a circle is tau thank you for your attention
John Sullivan
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"Holding down the fort this week."
Is there a less colonalist phrase for when only one team member is available?
(Boosts appreciated)
Nearly to the point of self-hosting Mastodon just so I can write a plugin that removes "Let's be clear" and close variations from all posts in my timeline.
@evan I said "rarely" partly because I think communication is required. Throwing the seat back without warning is antisocial behavior IMO.
@noodles Curious what you are using it for. I have one that I haven't touched for a while..
John Sullivan
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If I could change one thing about the way we talk about copyright, it would be to replace "protected" with "encumbered," at least in the library context. An out-of-print book from 1950 with a dead author and a defunct publisher is not "protected" by copyright; it's encumbered. 60-year-old newspaper articles, 10-year-old political ads, on and on - vast swaths of in-copyright material with no commercial life but some remaining intellectual value aren't protected by copyright. They're encumbered.
The PinePhone FLOSS modem firmware provides a local SMS command interface. But it's stopped answering my messages. Ghosted by my own phone!
https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/blob/kirkstone/docs/SMS_INTERFACE.md
Former shipper and executive director at the Free Software Foundation, now https://alliterativeadvising.com, https://crazyalansemporium.com, and board of directors for https://f-droid.org.
Joined May 2019
